The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2J. Nichol, 1856 |
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Page ix
... writing on the wall disturbed his impious feast , that it would seem more ideal and more magnificent than a star " trembling on the hand of God " when newly created , or trembling on the verge of everlasting darkness , when its hour had ...
... writing on the wall disturbed his impious feast , that it would seem more ideal and more magnificent than a star " trembling on the hand of God " when newly created , or trembling on the verge of everlasting darkness , when its hour had ...
Page xiii
... writer , like Goldsmith , whose ingenuity must make up for his ignorance , nor one of those doctorum vatum , those learned poets , such as Dante , Milton , and Coleridge , whose works alone , according at least to Buchanan , are to ...
... writer , like Goldsmith , whose ingenuity must make up for his ignorance , nor one of those doctorum vatum , those learned poets , such as Dante , Milton , and Coleridge , whose works alone , according at least to Buchanan , are to ...
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... write in verse . The music might lessen the malice , and set off the commonplace to advantage , so that if there were no " reason , " there might be at least " rhyme . " His " Lines to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady " are too ...
... write in verse . The music might lessen the malice , and set off the commonplace to advantage , so that if there were no " reason , " there might be at least " rhyme . " His " Lines to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady " are too ...
Page xxi
... him blessed . " We had intended some remarks on Pope as a prose - writer , and as a correspondent ; but want of space has compelled us to confine ourselves to his poetry . CONTENTS . ཙཆ 2 THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE . xxi.
... him blessed . " We had intended some remarks on Pope as a prose - writer , and as a correspondent ; but want of space has compelled us to confine ourselves to his poetry . CONTENTS . ཙཆ 2 THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE . xxi.
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... write , To draw the naked is your true delight . That robe of quality so struts and swells , None see what parts of nature it conceals : The exactest traits of body or of mind , We owe to models of an humble kind . If Queensberry to ...
... write , To draw the naked is your true delight . That robe of quality so struts and swells , None see what parts of nature it conceals : The exactest traits of body or of mind , We owe to models of an humble kind . If Queensberry to ...
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